Glove-fastening.



No. 663,52. Patented Dec. II, 1900. m. n. SHIPMAN & E. P. BUNYEA.

GLOVE FASTENING,

(Application filed. Apr. 28. 1897.)

(N0 Modem 8 vwento z 3 IUNTTETT STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS, AND EMMET P. BUNYEA, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; SAID BUNYEA ASSIGNOR TO SAID SHIPMAN.

GLOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,521, dated. December 11, 1900.

Application filed April 28, 1897. serial No. 634,254. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that we, MADISON D. SHIPMAN, of De Kalb, county of De Kalb, Illinois, and EMMET P. BUNYEA, of Washington, District of Columbia, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glove-Fasteners; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to the head or stud catch members of glove fasteners and studs and to the means of attaching the same to the glove or material; and the objects are to provide a button of this character which shall be simple in construction, of comparatively few parts not easily strained or distorted in use, and to improve the means of securing or attaching such fasteners to the material. We attain these objects by means of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, and hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is avertical sectional view of the head or socket member, showing the same attached to the material. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the parts shown in Fig. 1 previous to their attachment to the material and showing in dotted lines the tools in one position during the process. of attaching the same to the material. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a slightly-modified form of socket member, showing a catch and a closed cap or cover therefor secured to the material. Fig. 4is a similar view of the parts shown in Fig. 3 previous to the assembling of the outer cap Z) and the fastening-eyelet B and their attachment to the material. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through the stud memher and its attaching-rivet, showing said parts attached to the material and also illustrating one form which the rivet may assume in the setting or clenching operation. Fig. 6 is a vertical section through an attaching-rivet of similar form and having its flange covered by a coating of celluloid or other plastic material. Fig. 7 is a vertical-section of the rivet, taken at right angles to the view in Fig. 6, with the coating omitted. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the rivet.

As shown in Fig. 1, the socket member consists of two parts, the stud-catch A and the combined cap and fastening-eyelet B. The stud-catch shown in this figure of the draw ings has a hollow dome-shaped shell or upper portion a and a base-flange b. At the base of the hollow dome-shaped shell the catch is contracted to form a recess 0, and the flange is curved upward from this recess to near its outer edge. This recess 0 is for the purpose of serving as an anvil or upsetting-surface for the end of the fastener B. In attaching these parts to the material the stud-catch A is placed upon the protruding end of a tool or mandrel, and the cap, as B, is supported upon the opposite side of the material in a suitable tool held in alinement with the catch. When the two parts are forced together, with the material between them, the end of the eyelet d is curled or upset either outwardly or inwardly within the recess 0, surrounding the base of the dome. When a spring-catch is to be used, the tool upon which the catch is supported is of sufficient size to open and hold during the setting operation the slit to just the required degree to admit the coacting stud member with which this catch is to be used. The upset or curled edge 01 of the fastening-tube serves as a guard to limit the expansion of the stud-catch opening and to prevent injury or distortion to the catching edge of the studcatch. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the studcatch is hollow and has an open upper end a, of substantially the same size as the studcatch opening I).

A supplemental cap or cover I) is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 to cover the button in Fig. 4 before assembling the parts. The stud-catch shown in said Figs. 3 and 4 is secured to the material in substantially the same manner as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with this difference, however, that the end of the mandrel projects through the opening a at the upper end of the catch and centers the catch. Substantially the same form of eyelet B is used for securing the catch shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the end ofsaid eyeletbeingshown ascurled inward in said Fig. 3 within recess cin the stud-catch instead of outward, as shown in Fig. 1. It will be noticed that this stud-catch, formed as shown and described above, is very compact, sets close to the material, and may be attached to materials of varying thickness without alteration in the length of the fastening-tube d, as more or less of said end will be curled within the recess 0, depending upon,

the thickness of material used,and said curled or burred end is entirely concealed, leaving no unsightly or rough projections when the fastener is attached to the material.

An important feature of our invention is the manner in which the stud-catch is expanded by the setting-tool to conform with the size of the stud member to be used therewith. The upper end of the inandrelupon which the stud-catch is supportedis of the exact diameter required to enlarge and hold the studcatch opening during the setting operation uniformly in all cases and to always insure a perfect fitting of the parts.

We have thus far described this invention as applicable only to a socket member of a glove-fastening; but it will beohvious'that the stud member might be formed and secured to the material in the manner shownin Fig. 2. In other words, the stud member if formed slightly extended and similar to the catch A and having the recess 0 may be secured to thematerial by a flanged fasteningeyelet having itsend curledin the recess at the base in the same manner, in which case the flange of the fastening-eyelet could be flat and the tube very much shorter.

The attaching-rivet D (shown inFigs. 5, 6, 7, and 8) consists of a base-flange cl and a hollow shank d, extending therefrom. The end cl of the shank is pointed and is sulficiently sharp to pierce materials with which it is designed to be used. The upper end portion of the shank cl' may be provided with a slight annular ridge or ofli'set between the point-section and the body of'theshank, and at a suitable place within its lengththe shank may beperforated, indented, orslitted, asat d so as to insurethe proper upsetting of the rivet and to weaken the 'shankso that the point d will not penetrate orinjure the stud E.

It will be understood thatseveral perforations, slits, or depressions (1 may be made in the shank and that they should be irregularly located at diiferent points within the length l ofthe shank, so that the upsetting operation will always thoroughly crinkle the rivetwithin the stud; but a single perforation orslit has some advantages, because it alwaysinsures the bending or turning of the point-sew tion over upon that side of the shank when the upsetting operation takes place.

we also contemplate using acelluloid or other plastic cover for the flange of the eyelet or rivet, and this cover may be attached to the flange by cars or offsets d to anchor the covering, as shown in Figs. 6 and 8.

It will be understood that the covering material is to be applied in a plastic or semiplastic condition and permitted to harden.

Without desiring to limit ourselves to the exact details of the construction shown, what we desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent isl. A socket member for glove-fasteners, comprising a catch having a hollow body portion, an outlying base-flange, and an annular recess or contraction at the junction of the body portion and flange, an eyelet having a cap or cover secured thereto, the end of said eyelet being passed through the material and having its tubular edge curled within the annular recess or contraction,substantially as described.

2. The socket member of a glove-fastener consisting of aclosed top or cover as b and a flanged fastening-eyelet as B secured thereto, and-astud-catch having a bulging body portion, a recess below the'bulge of said body portion to receive-the curled end of the fas toning-eyelet, and-a deflecting-surface integral with the flange of thestud-catch wherebytheend of thefastening-eyelet is burred and the socket niemberis 'secured tothe materialsubstantially asset forth.

A stud-catch for glove-fasteners comprising a bulged body portion and outlying base-flange, the body portionbeing contract-' ed at its junctionwith the flange to form an annularrecess to receive theturned endofi a fastening-eyelet, and which alsoservesas an anvil or clenching surface for turning the end of the attaching-tube,substantially as described.

4. A stud-catch for glove-fasteners consisting of acatch having a hollow flaring body portion and an outlying base-flangeya groove or recess as 0* surrounding thesaidcontracted portion and a clenching-surface on-said flange.

5. A socket member for glove -fasteners comprising aresilient catch having an outwardly-swelled body portion and an outlying base-flange, a recess at the junction'of the body "and the flange andan eyelet or fastening set from the opposite side of 'the materialand having itsedge curledor clenched within said recess su rrounding the catch; saidcurled portion serving as a guard, shield orstop to limit the expansion of the catch substantially 'as described.

6. A stud member of a glove-fastener composed of a hollow head provided with a flange, and a fastener therefor having ahollow piercing-point, a crippling notch' or depression in its stem and the exposed surface of its flange covered with celluloid or other plastic material, the stem of the fastener burred within the head of thestudand ithe flanges of the head and the'rivet clampingthe material'between them.

7. A rivet forsecuring studsonbuttonsto im perforate sheet material comprising a baseflange, a hollow tapering shank rising from said flange, said shank being provided with an acute conical point for piercing the material, substantially as described.

8. A rivet for securing studs or buttons to imperforate sheet material consisting of a base-flange, a hollow tapering shank rising therefrom, a conical point at the end of the shank and an annular ridge or offset at the junction of the shank and point, substantially as described.

9. A rivet consisting of a base-flange, a hollow integral tapering shank rising from the center of said flange, a conical point on said shank and a depression or notch at the point of juncture of the shank and point, substantially as described.

10. Ahollowrivetcomprisingabase-flange, an integral tapering shank projected therefrom and a disk of plastic material secured to the outer edge of the flange for covering said flange upon its exposed surface, substantially as described. v

11. A hollow rivet comprisinga baseflange, a tapering pointed shank rising from said flange, ears or anchors at the periphery of said flange and a film of plastic material covering the outer surface of the flange and held thereon by said ears or anchors, substantially as described. I

12. Astud member of a glove-fastener comprising a head having a base-flange, and an ann ular groove or depression within the flange at the junction of said flange and head por-' tion, substantially as described.

13. A stud member of a glove-fastener corisisting of a hollow head having a base-flange,- said stud member being secured to the mate rial by a rivet comprising a base-flange, a hollow tapering shank rising from said flange, said shank being provided with an acute conical point for piercing the material, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN. EMMET P. BUNYEA. WVitnesses:

EDWIN S. OLARKsoN, AUGUST DONATH. 

